I have made a movie from our journey in Reunion's Island. I have edited the 8 hours of video into a 55 min movie. I have used iMovie3 and iDVD3 on an iMac 17" Superdrive. Most of my friends who have watched the movie asked me for a copy. So I have tried to burn the first DVD and the next ones, one after the other as proposed by iDVD. The first DVD was burned in the expected time corresponding to the length of the movie, whereas of all the other DVDs were completed much faster (around 20 minutes less). And here starts the problem: if the first DVD was containing the entire movie, for the next burned DVDs it was completely different... The movie is not smooth, there are many "freezed" images, and suddenly the movie stop and it is not possible to read the DVD further... From one DVD to another, the "freezed" images can be at the beginning, in the middle or rather at the end of the movie; but in all cases the DVD can not be read properly. I had to discard around 15 DVDs due to this problem... In addition, I have placed a label on the DVDs using the CD Stromper. Big mistake, same effects, "freezed" images, the movie is not fluid anymore and the sound is desynchronized...even if the label is placed on the original DVDs... |
To start, if the burning time of the first DVD is longer, this is due to the encoding. His problem with the following burned DVD is quite common, and we will advise to create a disc image of the original video DVD, and then burn additional DVD directly from the disc image using disc utilities.
Never burn DVD at the maximum speed allowed by your burner. Only the Pioneer 106 is reliable enough for burning video DVD at 4x, whereas the Pioneer 107 model can be used at 4x and 6x if it has been patched with the recent firmware.
And to conclude, but it is really important, do not stick labels on your video DVD. Whatever system you will be using , it will never be precisely centered, the DVD will then vibrate and will not be properly read by DVD players.
